Kazy Richmond helps assists with adoption recruitment for Children Services, which is a position that was created by a grant from the Dave Thomas Foundation's Wendy's Wonderful Kids.

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Kazy Richmond can look back at his childhood and easily see how a lack of support could have left him floundering.

Richmond, a 2000 Waverly High School graduate, was 8 when his father and two of his cousins chased a robbery suspect at the local grocery store. During that chase, his father had a heart attack and died. Less than a year later, Richmond also lost a grandfather.

At the time, he didn't think much about how people in his life rallied around him and helped him through, but as he works with children in foster care as a Wendy's Wonderful Kids adoption recruiter for southeastern Ohio, it's quite ...